(289 quotes found)
“Now that my ladder's goneI must lie down where all ladders startIn the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.”
William Butler Yeats
“A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever”
Jessamyn West
“I have no history but the length of my bones”
Robin Skelton
“A good dog deserves a good bone”
American Proverb
“Hey, I ain't fat, I'm just big-boned.”
Eric Cartman
“Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand, to make the Pass.”
William S. Burroughs
“Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,/ He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.”
Charles Churchill
“A jest breaks no bones”
Samuel Johnson
“Like ants eating a bone.”
Chinese Proverbs
“Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.”
Samuel Beckett
